Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 45

Photograph

Sid Boyum Directing Video

Date: 
Description: Sid Boyum, at right in the director's chair, and a Gisholt executive on the left. They are sitting while working on a Gisholt film.
Photograph

Walt Handford Retirement Party

Date: 
Description: Sid Boyum presenting Walt Handford of Gisholt Machine Company with a signed piece of artwork at Walt's retirement party.
Photograph

Gisholt Machine Company Treasurer with Sid Boyum Art

Date: 
Description: The Gisholt Machine Company treasurer is standing and displaying a Sid Boyum drawing on top of a desk. The drawing was created for the treasurer in celebra...
Photograph

Fiddle Player

Date: 
Description: Man playing fiddle in the kitchen of a house.
Photograph

Man with Horse Sculpture

Date: 
Description: Portrait of a man standing behind a horse sculpture.
Photograph

Sid Boyum on his Toonerville Trolley

Date: 
Description: View across the backyard of 237 Waubesa St. looking at Sid Boyum standing on the back of his wooden trolley, "Toonerville". Sid has a corncob pipe in his m...
Photograph

Gisholdt Employees at Bar

Date: 
Description: View of Gisholt employees, all men, wearing suits and neckties, sitting around the bar of an unidentified tavern. On the wall on the right is a Sid Boyum c...
Photograph

Ice Chippers Group Portrait

Date: 1957
Description: Group portrait of the Ice Chippers, members of a winter ice fishing group based in Madison. They are posing indoors, and Sid Boyum is sitting on the floor ...
Photograph

Post-Pagoda Rewards for Sid and Friends

Date: 
Description: Sid and his friends celebrating at a restaurant after installing the roof for the pagoda in Sid's backyard. Russell Pratt Mecalf is 2nd from right raising ...
Photograph

Gisholt Machine Company Sales Material

Date: 
Description: Drawing depicting a man with a moustache, eyeglasses, and a safari hat smoking a pipe above the words "Gisholt Sales Safari."
Photograph

Sid Standing with "Gnome"

Date: 
Description: Sid standing with the "Gnome" sculpture in his backyard. Holding a cigar in his mouth, he wears a dark beret, a short-sleeved white button-down shirt, dark...
Photograph

Sid Sitting on of "Toonerville"

Date: 
Description: View of Sid sitting in his backyard on the back of his trolley car, "Toonerville," holding a stick in his hand and pretending to fish. Sid is wearing a lar...
Photograph

Sid with "Gnome"

Date: 1990
Description: Sid posing with the "Gnome" sculpture in his backyard, hand resting on its head. Holding a signature cigar in his mouth, he is wearing a dark beret, a shor...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1982
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing. This drawing appeared in the Capitol Times on April 30, 1982 with the caption: "The opening of the state fishing se...
Drawing

Invitation to a Winter Holiday Party

Date: 
Description: Hand-drawn invitation by Sid for a Gisholt Machine Company winter holiday party that reads: "Come what will — we observe our holidays still." Dec. 21st, 5 ...
Photograph

After a Ducks Unlimited Meeting

Date: 
Description: Two men from Ducks Unlimited are playing cards at a table, while another man is looking at a poster created by Sid titled: "Secrets of a Sweater Girl." The...
Photograph

Robert Overman Hodgell with Sculptures

Date: 
Description: Robert Overman Hodgell, wearing a paisley shirt and eyeglasses, contemplating two wooden sculptures. The sculpture on the left is a headless, armless naked...
Photograph

Sid Posing with His Sculptures

Date: 
Description: Sid standing in the backyard on Waubesa Street among his forest of concrete cast sculptures, like the "Multi-Tiered Pagoda," "Blue Tripod," and "Biomorphic...
Photograph

Man Pretending to Play a Fishing Pole with a Bow

Date: 
Description: A man sitting on plastic buckets in a store selling floor materials pretending to play a fishing pole with a bow. The man is wearing hip waders pulled down...
Photograph

Man Speaking at an Ice Chippers Dinner

Date: 
Description: View down table towards a man standing and speaking to the group at an Ice Chippers annual dinner. Behind the men, posters are taped to the wall and includ...

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: